The Reedsburg Beaver boys tennis team entered this past weekend at the Badger Conference Tournament as the number two team in Badger Small and they exit the weekend still holding the number two spot.
For the fourth time this season, the Reedsburg Beaver boys track and field team won a team title in a meet last Tuesday after capturing first place at the Justinger Invitational in Tomah. The girls also placed second behind Tomah in the seven-team field.
On May 29, 1951, history was made at Webb Park as the first sanctioned Little League games in the State of Wisconsin were played right here in Reedsburg. Starting with just four teams, that inaugural season planted the seeds for a baseball tradition that has defined local summers for generations.
A seventh-place girls team finish among a field of over 20 schools was one of the best showings this year for River Valley Blackhawks Track and Field at Friday’s Sparky Reynolds Invite at Boscobel. The boys placed 11th with the Lancaster girls and Platteville boys winning team championships.
The Reedsburg Pirates and Cazenovia Reds were both to open their Sunday League Home Talent Baseball schedules on Sunday, May 17 but steady rains during the day postponed both games with no make-up dates known.
Weston got back above the .500 mark in Ridge and Valley Conference Baseball at 5-4 with a 20-4 win at La Farge last Thursday. Isaac Jennings, Brady Westphal and Trevor Westphal all had two hits each while Isaac Jennings led with four runs scored. Gavin Kast belted a HR and led with three rbi’s as well.
The track and field programs in the Southwest Wisconsin Conference, including the River Valley Blackhawks, got a final chance to compete with one another last week before the end of season SWC Meet as the conference schools gathered in Prairie du Chien last Tuesday with no team scores kept.
It was rare to have a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off last week but the Ithaca/Weston softball team got some time on the practice field, and it worked out for them when they returned to action faraday and recorded a 5-2 non-conference win over Cashton in a well-played game at Ithaca High School.
River Valley hosted arch-rival Richland Center last Tuesday on the baseball diamond and things didn’t go as hoped for the Blackhawks in a 9-2 loss as R-C notched its first win of the conference season. It was a 1-1 game after the first inning, but the visiting Hornets controlled the rest of the game.
